Delete Your Account Podcast

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only!   We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including Roqayah's new weekly column "Last Week in Lebanon," by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and re...

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined for the hour by Alexander Aviña, an expert on Mexican history and US imperialism in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor to the newsletter Foreign Exchanges on Substack , and author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside .  Alex shares his pe...

This week, Roqayah and Kumars present a news roundup from Lebanon and Palestine. They preview Roqayah's on-the-ground coverage of the funeral of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, available exclusively to Delete Your Account subscribers on Patreon, before discussing the current state of the ceasefire in Gaza, the IDF's latest escalation in the West Bank, and Israel's plans to occupy southern Syria indefinit...

This week, Roqayah and Kumars preview Roqayah's new weekly column, "Last Week in Lebanon," available exclusively to Delete Your Account subscribers on Patreon. In her first post , Roqayah documents the Lebanese Army's crackdown on pro-Resistance demonstrations after the new Lebanese government prevented an Iranian plane from carrying mourners to the funeral of Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah. If you want...

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including Roqayah's upcoming weekly report from Lebanon, by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us...

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined for the hour from Ramallah by writer, translator and returning guest Rawan Masri, cofounder of the online archive and resource hub decolonizepalestine.com. Rawan shares her analysis of the ceasefire in Gaza before turning to the West Bank to break down Israel's unprecedented escalation, what annexation would actually look like, and the curious revival...

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Ju-hyun Park, engagement editor at The Real News Network and an organizer with Nodutdol for Korean Community Development.  Ju-hyun discusses the origins of Nodutdol , founded in 1999 by diaspora Koreans in the United States to work for reunification, national liberation and the end of US imperialism on the Korean peninsula,...

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only!   We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreo n for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts .  This week, Roqayah and Kumars are...

A transcript for this episode is now available to download for free as a pdf on our Patreon .  Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by Rasha Abdulhadi, writer, organizer, poet and author of several books including  The Countermonuments (2024). Rasha discusses a few of their poems including " Your Oysters ," " Advice on Love from an Astronaut with a Failing Memory...

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our   Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts .  This week, Roqayah has the latest...

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Los Angeles Tenants Union co-founders Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis to discuss their new book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can Solve the Housing Crisis, which documents their experiences on the front lines of the resurgent tenant movement in California and the lessons that organizers everywhere can draw from the movement...

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only!   We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts .  This week, Roqayah is once again r...

This week, Roqayah is back and reporting from Lebanon. She and Kumars discuss Hezbollah's latest military response to Israel's killing of Hezbollah's Senior Commander Sayyed Fouad Ali Shokr in Beirut's southern suburbs, and her latest article for Splinter on the Israeli attack on Haret Hreik. They also discuss Israel's response—its biggest since the 2006 July War—the potential impact on the region...

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only!   We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts .  This week, Roqayah is back and rep...

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by geopolitical analyst, editor and activist Rune Agerhus. Rune, founder of the new publishing house Hamra Books and a member of the International Commission for Solidarity with Yemen whose work has appeared on Al Mayadeen , takes us on a deep dive into the contemporary Ansarullah movement and the legacy of Yemeni resistance to...

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined by an all-star team of football fans to review the club soccer season that was and preview this summer's Euro and Copa America tournaments. Veterans of Delete Your Account soccer coverage Sam Knight and Sam Sacks, founders of the District Sentinel News Co-op, return alongside the hosts of the We Made It podcast on YouTube, sophomore slugger Bam and our...

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only!   We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts .  This week on After Hours, Roqayah...

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by professor and academic, Mohamed Abdou, for a discussion of decolonial theory and a reflection on how the framework of decolonization benefits pro-Palestine solidarity and organizing. Mohamed, one of three faculty members targeted and smeared during congressional testimony by House Republicans and the president of Columbia University, discusses the explos...

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our  Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts .  Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars...

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by two Boston-based student organizers for an update on the Palestine solidarity movement on US college campuses. Lea Kayali is a law student and activist with the Palestinian Youth Movement ( PYM ) and Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine, and Mohamed Mohamed is a graduate student and activist with the Coalition Against Apartheid ( CAA ) at the Massach...

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Bam and Dan, cohosts of The Power Report on Twitch and YouTube. Bam also cohosts the soccer podcast We Made It , and Dan reviews music on Audioface .  Bam and Dan share their thoughts on the 2024 presidential election, Dan's experience working at The Young Turks, why left media figures turn to cultural conservatism, and who...

This week, Roqayah and Kumars share their thoughts on Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza, including escalating violence and displacement of its population.  They also discuss the Northern front, i.e. Lebanon, where since October 8th Hezballah and Israel have been engaging in a mounting offensive that has achieved a number of objectives for the Lebanese resistance faction while also directin...

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only!   We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts .  Roqayah is off this week, so Kumar...

In tribute to Palestinian poet, activist, academic, and co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, Refaat Alareer, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by his colleague at the Electronic Intifada, Nora Barrows-Friedman, to discuss Israel's deliberate assassination of Refaat, and his legacy.  Nora discusses the impact of Refaat's targeted execution by Israel , and the impressions he left upon thousands of students...

This week, Roqayah and Kumars welcome back returning guests Rawan Masri and Fathi Nemer, cofounders of the outstanding resource hub and archive decolonizepalestine.com . Rawan is a writer and translator working at the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, and Fathi is currently Palestine Policy Fellow at Al Shabaka, the only independent, transnational Palestinian thinktank.  After sharing their thoughts...